The offbeat artist and storyteller who gave us A Bird and His Worm returns with this parable about luck and about animals in children's stories. Ed is a monkey who wears clothes—a full set, not just a jacket with no pants—and lives in a just-the-right-size-for-a-monkey house (because why would a monkey who wears clothes live in a tree?). One day he steps out to a beautiful sunrise, with friendly animals (also wearing clothes) hopping around. Good fortune smiles on him all day. Ted, however, is another monkey whose day starts badly and keeps getting worse. James Kaczman's deconstructed children's story for youngsters 4 to 8 is illustrated with his highly stylized painted cartoons.